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Comment by althras

This NPC is the biggest pain to many a new character when questing in Duskwood. Be on the lookout for him at all times if you're low level and questing at Raven Hill Cemetary area. He hits hard and kills fast.

Comment by DarkCrisis

If you go to Raven Hill (which you will) becareful cause he's way naughty. But don't worry cause you get sweet revenge on him laterfor a nice sword to boot!

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Comment by Knoxpwns

Solo'd this fellow as a 25 hunter when he was still a 35 elite. at that level, he can easily be kited all the way to Darkshire and have guards help you. I myself turned him around at that point because i wanted to do it on my own, but since the recent level change, he could easily be solo'd by any hunter in the mid 20s via kiting. GL doing your quest.

Comment by oded

I Don't care.

Comment by fsjcc1

Warriors, this is a fun boss to use "Retaliation" on. He hits fast, but with retaliation you match him blow-for-blow. It's quite entertaining!

Comment by sildarath

I understand he's been nerfed for patch 2.3 and is no longer elite. I'm not happy about this. He was quite the challenge for my Alliance rogue when he was in Duskwood.

Comment by Sproutie

As off patch 2.3 he's a level 30 elite . Killed him solo with a 30 retri paladin - he has a nasty enrage he casts on himselves increasing his attackspeed by 100% and increasing physical damage dealt. I bubbled through it (and healed myselves). Used Excorsism to lay down the law on him.

Eventho he's no longer a 35 elite, the quest still shows up as 35+group. Kiting chars can easily kill him - for melee'ers I wouldnt recommend going up against him before level 30~ tho.

Comment by joshy1001

killed him with a 29 mage mostly used frost nova and frost bolt:P the best way to kill is with frost as tallent if mage the frost spells will freeze them in place

Comment by zeffoman

He hits very fast and quite hard. Soloed as a 29 retribution paladin with Divine Protection, BoP, LoH, mana potion and bandage used.

Comment by alfonsogus

I killed him with an enhancement Shammy in level 29 i just used 1 healing potion the strategy is just put your earthbind totem and searing totem and just earthshock him he is a level 30 elite and he is so strong and just heal while ur hp is low the use the 3 second heal so u have lots hp.

Comment by waverlyt

Solo'd with a level 31 druid in bearform. Pulled with Faerie Fire, then Maul until I was ~20% health, Bash, Regrowth, shift back to bearform and Maul until he went down. Only had to heal once.

Comment by Phioner

Easily soloed as 32lvl retri paladin. Didn't even have to heal/bubble.

Comment by Ghangis

Double teamed with a 28 hunter and 27 paladin, no heals, and had a spider interrupt us in the middle. No deaths, down in about one minute. Pretty easy.

Comment by nisx

soloed with 31lvl warr-just use Retaliation,Demorazing shout and Thunder Clap they help alot .Get some health potions too

Comment by Sandos

Hunters are probably best off with killing him, since frost trap slows him down quite a bit making kiting him around a small area fairly easy.

Comment by Lusky

He's very easy to solo, for me (MM hunter) sent in pet and nuked and occasionaly when pet lost agro concussive and kite. Repeat this until he gets his buff, pull pet away and make sure to stay away, he's practically kiting himself with 25% slow down.

If he does manage to get face-to-face with you, simply slap a frost trap down and get some distance and repeat.

Comment by Kharos

This guy is fairly easy to solo as a paladin, just keep up judgment of the crusader on him and cast exorcism every time it's up. It's easier if you have seal of command, but every leveling paladin should have that.

I was able to solo him at level 29, but 28 should be doable with some luck.

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Comment by doogless

Rogues can solo him fairly easily, at least after level 30 when they have Kidney Shot. MH Crippling Poison, run up and spam Hemo/Sinister Strike, and then run out and kite while your energy regens. Kidney Shot every time it comes up and he should die before you do.

Comment by ZachUSAman

soloed him as a shadow priest, had to shackle him run away, mind flay or mind blast him then shackle again and repeat.

Comment by Giggles

Soloed him as a lvl 28 fury warrior. Because of the midsummer festival, i had the bonfire buff, which give me 30% to inflict 280 dmg on melee hit. When i killed him, i used retaliation. And sinse retaliation is melee, it procced of the buff almost every time he hit me. Was a very easy kill with this way.

Comment by Enigma107

Soloed as a 28 Subtlety rogue. Started off with cheap shot threw on Ghostly Strike and Evasion, already had 25% chance to dodge and the noob never hit me. Not as hard as people say he is but still hurts hard nonetheless.

Comment by Gweedo

As a level 32 feral druid, he wasn't that hard. The things to remember are:

I recommend soloing him in bear, even if you're not feral, it's your best chance.

Stun him AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN.

Unlike most MANY paladins (and yes, don't flame me, I have one) he's a DPS machine. So heal early and heal often, because when you switch from bear into humanoid form, he's going to hit you like a Mack truck.

I charged him, but I think Faerie Fire would have been a better pulling strategy.

Throw every de-buff you have at him. He's not immortal. You can solo him. Just make sure you're ready for him.

Comment by Gaeston

This is what the male undead character model should look like.

Comment by Jarigise

Soloed as a level 27 BM hunter. I let my pet tank, waited until Improved Aspect of the Hawk kicked in, then used Rapid Shots, throwing out Arcane Shot and keeping up Serpent Sting the whole time. He hits pretty hard and was a bit of a challenge, but I managed to kill him without any real trouble.

Comment by Ruffy

Mor'Ladim stands for Morgan Ladimore, it a long Lore quest for him.

Comment by apeiron

He's vulnerable to roots and snares as any normal mob. I was bored on my Druid and decided to give him a shot. I did some initial DPS in cat form, got him down to about 60% before my health got low. Rooted him, moved out of range to heal, went in bear form, and repeated as necessary.

Comment by hermy12

Soloed as a 27 frost mage, only had to pop a Minor Mana Potion, it was all I had.

I might also add that a very useful technique for cooldowns was to kite him around and get him stuck on the statue on the small stone circle. By stuck I mean have him on the other side of the statue while you're far on the other side, and when he starts to run at you he has to go one way. For example, if you're on the left half of the statue's midpoint, he'll run out from the left side to the statue. Quickly counter it by moving over to the right side, and you can win yourself 3 seconds or so for cooldown, if you do it too long he deaggros. Very useful for Frost Nova. I'll see if I can make a video and put it on YouTube.

Comment by Cullendisorder

This guy's tricky to get down but if you know what to do then you can pwn him easily. (:

I managed to kill him with a warrior friend, she tanked and I dpsed/healed.Ah... we pwned him. We really did. It was fun. (:

Aaaand we were only lvl 27s! (:

Comment by kaktuzz

Soloed as 27 shadow priest.just use shackle undead and Mind blast.He was orange and resisted like many of my shackles and he hits .... like 150 on me non crit.When you are oom just shackle and wait for (200) mana (mb = 110 shackle = 90)And make sure you have some pots or so.

Comment by D4NK

If anyone is wondering why people say hes a complete badass, even though he now isnt, you should have seen him before the leveling nerf and the group quest nerf. This guy was a beast, lvl 36 with 8k hp. Enrage didnt use to have the movement speed debuff and he would literally rock any player who tried to engage him alone that was under level 50, he was also immune to fears / movement impairing and stuns.

Now however, he has indeed been nerfed and many classes can solo him. Paladins can use exorcism and turn evil very effectively against him.

Comment by arenouis

he is very hard to solo on a warrior... but i did xD. Solo'd him on my 29 protection warrior, i guided him to the square with the broken statue and got him stuck... i was at little health tho when i got him there so get him stuck asap as soon as u do that get away and bandage urself or if ur draenei gift of naruu works too.-when u go after him use charge-and then i used sunder armor,rend, hamstring, do that over and over until u get him to about 20-15% health then u use execute works well then u get him to about 10-5% health then u use rend/hamstring/sunder armor and then he is dead (useually) but remember he hits very hard and can kill very quick (when doin this retalliation is a fun thing to use)-never use thunder clap if there are any undead or any thing if there are undead or spiders or w/ e around-if u need to heal urself abit during killin him then get him stuck and bandage urself or if u can get a preist/druid with u to heal

Comment by papus

Ive killed him alone (30lvl Paladin) without bigger problems... - Use Seal of Light, Unseal it, and seal once again... next use Greater healing potion, and if your low on hp Divine Protection, next healing and Mor'Ladim killed :>

Comment by tymantz

i was a 31 enhance shammy @ the time, make sure to clear out the area before you start. pulled him with 2 lightning bolts, dotted him w/ fire, dropped stoneskin/healing stream/magma/windfury totems, and then just critted the junk off him especially with windfury. make sure to toss gift of the naaru or any other HoT and i think i tossed in 1 healing wave. not to bad of a fight if you pay attention.

Comment by petar95

Isn't He the corpse of Morgan Ladimore ? and is he using Archeus?

Comment by FatherYumYum

Easily soloed as a 29 balance druid. He can be rooted, so I just did this: root, starfire, starfire, root, starfire, starfire, etc. He doesn't move too fast, so once root breaks, he can be easily rooted before moving 1 yard. He only hit me once and I never even moved.

Comment by cjp240573

This guy really peed me off when i was a newbie, now im lvl70 im going to make some time to go back and kick his sorry arse into the middle of next week. grrrrrrrrrrr

Comment by crescent1121

He can be anywhere in or around the cemetary but the 'house on the hill' where he comes from is at 17,34. I had to kill him 3x while waiting for Raiders to apwn while doing "Proving Your Worth." It worked out well to do these quests together.

Comment by Skullhawk13

I used turn evil and exorcism alone, Took no damge

Turn EVIL

I belive i am the evil one not him no?

Comment by Felborn

Soloed as a 28 priest. Shackling does not make him regen health, so you can shackle and heal/wait for MP5 to restore your mana before starting up again. Be warned that any DoTs you have on him will break Shackle Undead on the next tick.

Comment by Dhendram

I just soloed this as a level 28 shadow specced priest. It was really hard and took a couple of tries. I did it like this:

Before the battle, pop your PW: shield. Regain your mana until you're full, then pull him with holy fire. Put dots up (dev. plague and SW: pain) then use mind flay. When your mind flay is up, he will start hitting you. Now you have to watch his status - when he uses his "enrage"-like ability, run away from him and be sure to keep dots up on him at all times. Between this, just wand him. My gear is mostly green, some blues like emberstone staff and the robes from the gnomer-quest.

I reckon this is doable for any class except perhaps warrior and rogue (whom in my experience aren't the best classes around for soloing hard monsters)

Good luck!

Comment by Zaelan

It isn't soloing if kite him to the town, considering the GUARDS will help you kill him after you get him over there.

It's soloing if YOU (and your pet, if you have one) kill something by YOURSELF. NO help, AT ALL (except for pets).

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Comment by mest7

Ironically, he was very hard to find when it was me looking to kill him instead of the other way around...

Comment by Artreed

Solo'd as 28 frost mage. Just used frostbolt and when he got close used frost nova, backed up, and started hitting him with more frostbolts. Make sure you are in an area where you can back up and not aggro any more mobs.

Comment by SenthaiOverlord

Unlike most paladins, he's a DPS machine

Since when is he a paladin? Since when Undead can be paladins whatsoever?

Whatever he might have been in his previous life, he's more of a Fury Warrior now...

Comment by Jita

Quite easily solo'd as a lvl 30 druid. Root -> Moonfire, repeat until dead. No need to even let him touch you.

Comment by BubbleFett

This guy is chump change now compared to what he used to be. Back in the day, he would wreck a searing trail of carnage in his path. Being that he was at a much higher level than those questing in the area, his aggro radius was huge. If he caught you...well...let's just hope that your god happens to be a merciful one.

Comment by bobert2

Easy solo as a 25 Hunter, simply kite him down to the road and kite him until he dies, he has no ranged attacks so if you need to use aspect of the cheeta but I was fine staying in viper/hawk the entire time.

Comment by dreadblood

soloed as a lvl 27 pala... had to use bubble and heal and pots but exorcism(with its constant crits on Undead) made it much easier

Comment by bobgoatse

Easy solo as a 29 Fury warrior.

Used Retaliation as soon as he used his attack speed increasing move then switched to Defensive Stance with a shield on. Used Shield Block and then when it expired used Shield Wall. He died a few seconds after that.

Comment by Noerart

Soloed as lv 28 Shammy. No big deal.

Just went Gift of the Naaru, and lesser healing wave for defence, and auto-attack+Earth shock for offence. Too bad I found out about the quest later:P

Comment by Sedirex

Someone doesn't read quest text and lore books.

Comment by calibanx

soloing him as a lvl 30 enhancement shaman is a peace of cake, just use earthbind/frost shock every time when he enrages...i didn't even have to heal. Frostbrand weapon is also a good option

Comment by Discohorror

Funny, though some paladins have posted their solo strategies, no one mentions that you can use Turn Undead on him. In other words, he's fearable for paladins, making him an absolute cakewalk, unless of course you're so unlucky as to fear him into some of the sorrounding undead.

Enjoy the slaughter :)

Comment by Darthdavo

Hoggers main.

Comment by KandyCane

Almost too easy to solo as a 27 Hybrid Priest(13/2/3).

I kept Power Word:Shield on myself, casted Holy Fire and then just spammed Smite(Glyph of Smite). Whenever Holy Fire would fall off, I'd Shackle him and run out of range and repeat the process.

Health wasn't an issue, and I had about 40% mana left when I finished him.

Note; this was done with 29 hit rating(20 from Chewy Fel Taffy), which is 10% extra chance to hit. It's possible to do it with less of course, but it'll result in some resisting.

EDIT: As for positioning, I waited for him to come to the big open spot a little south-east of the house on top of the hill. A large radius where you'll be able to fight him without interruption

Comment by fazarstorm

Soloed today as a level 26 ret paladin. Bless yourself with wisdom, pull him into the northern area of Forlorn Rowe where there's empty space, and use Hand of Reckoning -> Exorcism -> Turn Undead, wait for the cooldowns to finish, then repeat.

It was hilariously easy.

Comment by goneguy

This guy is named Mor'Ladim..The sword he drops says "Morgan Ladimore's sword"...Morgan Ladimore also happens to be the ghost crying by "the weathered grave"...he must have really been upset because Mor'Ladim is %^&*ed lol.

Comment by Katsin

Saurfang - Chuck Norris's main.

Comment by Greenlander

Soloable with a huntard, lvl 24 in heirlooms, at least for a MM hunter. Took 5-6 tryes, it isn't easy. The biggest problems are: 1: ROOM! At lvl 24 it's hard to kite him around, without pulling aditional mobs! Pain in the ass after the first few tryes! But there is an area around 19.62, 36,11 with some space, but you'll have to kite him in circles2: Pet dying fast. My lvl 24 boar went down pretty fast, even with Mend Pet. You'll have to fight him alone most of the fight alone!3: Luck! You'll need a bit luck to hit with Freezing Trap several times in a row! Some good hits/crits with Arcane Shot/Aimed shot helps a lot!

BTW, did a random dungeon, came back as 25 and it was cupcake, even with the same ammo. WAY easier then with was at lvl 24.

Comment by Ramanas

Solo'd as a lvl26 Frost Spec'd mage was pretty easy tbh had 2 points in frostbite which proc'd 3times and i frost nova'd him once in place got him down without him even hitting me once :) So yea gogogo frost mages :D

Comment by Nightelf16

he has a $%^&*!

view him in 3D and look under him :)

I was looking at how his torso looked in that angle but i saw that lol

Comment by jdgks

I read the story behind Morgan Ladimore on wowwiki ( http://www.wowwiki.com/Morgan_Ladimore ) and i felt really sorry for him, and for all the things he had to see R.I.P. Morgan, fellow of Uther the Lightbringer...

Comment by Nerobyrne

Even though it's quite a stretch, this guys name always reminds me of "Dune"

Comment by asloversgo

Should've been a memory in Trial of the Champion...

Comment by ukdudeinuk

Level 25 elite now, quest suggests 3 people take him, I soloed him as a 28 fury warrior, quite easily I might add. In all greens and blues from quests.

Comment by shinazueli

So sad. He's gone. They took him out. Bye, Mor'ladim. I'll miss you ganking nubs in the cemetary non stop. It's not enough they took 10 levels from you, now you're just GONE! /sniffle.

Comment by Elendill

So sad. He's gone. They took him out. Bye, Mor'ladim. I'll miss you ganking nubs in the cemetary non stop. It's not enough they took 10 levels from you, now you're just GONE! /sniffle.

He's still here, wandering around the Manor.

Comment by Toyoka

Before you complete the new Morbent Fel quest chain, you won't see him. After it though, Mor'Ladim will be just outside the entrance to the crypt again :)

Comment by DocPooki

Something noticeably sad about this NPC is his patrol route. He wanders from the middle of the cemetery to the weathered grave - the grave of his wife. He then stands by it for a few seconds before turning around.

I couldn't help but feel a little for him in this moment, despite him being a crazed undead murderer.

Comment by polelover44

He's actually not that difficult to solo as a low-ish level hunter (27); I used Concussive Shot to slow him, then followed up with Arcane Shot repeatedly, using Concussive Shot again whenever he lost the lowered speed.

Comment by Hawkstorm

This is an interesting series of quests.

My gripe with it is that it has you running back and forth between the far reaches of the territory, just wasting time IMO.

My second gripe is that at the end of all that to and froing, there is a sword, which was not really any better that the Pikestaff I got at the end of the westfall quests, which I was still using at level 27. Nothing better in all that time had come along to take its place, and this reward was no exception.

Good quest chain but awful time waster.

Comment by Gabeluq

Back in the day, leveling my brand new paladin in classic wow this guy was a nightmare. Killed me quite a few times, I came back when I could and got my payback. Those days were great.

Comment by Anyasum

Where can I find him? I've looked everywhere and he didn't appear at all. I'm starting to lose my temper with this guy...

Comment by Kanariya

Originally he started out as a Level 35 elite. Over the course of the game, his level has been nerfed at least twice, and is now 10 levels lower than he used to be.

Comment by Wesker1

Soloed as a 25 shadow priest with 1 heal potion. Pulled with mind blast, then swp, then mind flayed my tail off. Refreshed swp, and shortly after had to use the pot, used renew once as well, but any class with the ability to heal and a pot should be able to get him down solo. I didn't use power word shield.

Also, no heirlooms as this is on a second account with only gear gotten through questing

Comment by bratmonkey

he patrols the Forlorn Rowe, going from Morbidius to a his grave that is outside of the cemetery. Disappointingly, there are no graves for his wife, Lys, and his 2 kids. Blizz is usually good about keeping the details. There are, however, a few groupings of 3 headstones together in the northeast quadrant of the cemetery. you can pretend that one of these groupings is his wife and kids.

Upon completing the quests you discover that one of Morgan's three children, watcher Sarah, is still alive. So the 3 of his family buried together is his wife, his son, and one of his daughters.

The sword you get for completing the quest is Restored Archeus, a fantastic weapon for transmogrification for any paladin tank

Comment by WaterCherry

This guy has an awesome gear...

Comment by Clousy

Just gonna mention that as a 28 Disc Priest with no heirlooms (quest greens, pretty much), this was easily soloable. Offensive Penance/Holy Fire on CD, Void Tendrils as he gets to you, and spam Smite. Saw it was a 3man, so was a little cautious, though I know he's a shadow of his former self.

Comment by Nekreab

This guy has a buff (holy shield) whilst in cemetery grounds which can make him harder to beat. Wait for him at the grave which is outside cemetery grounds and he is much easier.

Comment by Boats

I haven't been near this NPC with a low level char for a while. So I can't comment on how tough he is nowadays. This is something to share with those other poor victims who are still scarred by their encounter with Mor'Ladim before he was nerfed.